ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,572, issued on June 30, was assigned to Beijing Carrius Bio Ltd. (Beijing).

"Degradable lipid for active molecule delivery and lipid nanoparticle thereof" was invented by Ming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an ionizable lipid compound having an optimized carbon chain length and an amine head so that the ionizable lipid compound has increased delivery efficiency for an active molecule including, but not limited to, nucleic acids, proteins, small molecule drugs and the like. The present invention further relates to a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) comprising the ionizable lipid compound and the ac...